Two Brown alumni assume high-ranking academic appointments: Junius Gonzales ’80 will be the next senior vice president for academic affairs at UNC while
Case Western Reserve University gets a new vice president of research: Suzanne Rivera ’91.

The personal is political with in-demand Democratic ad man Mark Putnam ’86.

Swearing in turned high-tech for new US ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Suzi LeVine ’93.

Commencement 2014: It was a joyous celebration of Brown’s 246th Commencement, its 250th year, reunions from the 5th to the 75th, the rare occasion when all honorary degrees went to Brunonians, and probably the first time you heard the word semiquincentennial in casual conversation.

The exchange continues: President Paxson delivered Tougaloo’s commencement address last month and later spoke with its president, Beverly Wade Hogan, about Brown’s half-century partnership￼with the historically black college in Mississippi.

Vicki Leigh Colvin, a distinguished professor of chemistry and vice provost for research at Rice University, will become Brown’s 12th provost, while (Brown) Professor of History and Judaic Studies Maud Mandel will become the next dean of the College.

Brown and several local organizations are teaming up with the City of Providence to help upgrade Thayer Street, the heart of College Hill.

If pathologist Jonathan Kurtis’ pioneering vaccine is successful, it will cage the deadly malaria parasite in the red blood cells before it can multiply.

Professor of political science Ashutosh Varshney calls the victory of a conservative tea seller’s son over the Congress party an electoral revolution. What’s next?

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